The Pasteur payload on the ESA ExoMars Rover due for launch in 2013 is designed to search for evidence of extant or extinct life either on or down to 2 m below the surface of Mars. The Panoramic Camera stereo imaging system ...

The Aurora programme is the European Space Agency programme of planetary exploration focused primarily on Mars. Although the long-term goals of Aurora are uncertain, the early phases of the Aurora programme are based on a ...

Some of the issues involved in purchasing and using one of the powerful Knowledge Engineering Toolkits are examined. A case study problem is described and several products are reviewed as potential environments for ...

Populations of simulated agents controlled by dynamical neural networks are trained by artificial evolution to access linguistic instructions and to execute them by indicating, touching, or moving specific target objects. ...

Knowledge-based programming has provided a paradigm for the development of more effective and robust systems in a variety of fields. Its application to flexible assembly systems (FAS) clearly has its origins and continues ...

Of all of the challenges which face the effective application of computational intelligence technologies for pattern recognition, dataset dimensionality is undoubtedly one of the primary impediments. In order for pattern ...

Fuzzy interpolative reasoning strengthens the power of fuzzy inference by enhancing the robustness of fuzzy systems and reducing systems complexity. However, during the interpolation process, it is possible that multiple ...

The measure of data reliability has recently proven useful for a number of data analysis tasks. This paper extends the underlying metric to a new problem of soft subspace clustering. The concept of subspace clustering has ...

This paper describes a novel, principled approach to real-valued dataset reduction based on fuzzy and rough set theory. The approach is based on the formulation of fuzzy-rough discernibility matrices, that can be transformed ...

The assessment of mammographic risk analysis is an important issue in the medical field. Various approaches have been applied in order to achieve a higher accuracy in such analysis. In this paper, an approach known as ...

Responding appropriately to gaze cues is essential for fluent social interaction, playing a crucial role in social learning, collaboration, threat assessment and understanding others’ intentions. Previous research has shown ...

In this paper, we describe a system for facial feature detection and tracking using a 3D extension of the Constrained Local Model (CLM) [Cris 06, Cris 08] algorithm. The use of a 3D shape model allows improved tracking ...

The aim of our project is to provide a real-time dynamic passive profiling technique which will assist as a decision aid to Border Control Agencies, which has the potential to improve the hit rates. This paper discusses a ...

Image registration describes the process of manipulating a distorted version of an image such that its pixels overlay the equivalent pixels in a clean, master or reference image. The need for it has assumed particular ...

In aiming for advanced robotic systems that autonomously and permanently readapt to changing and uncertain environments,we introduce a scheme of fast learning and readaptation of robotic sensorimotor mappings based on ...

Fault identification is a search for possible behaviors that would explain the observed behavior of a physical system. During this search, different possible models are considered and information about the interaction ...

Few variables were selected from a pool of calculated Dragon descriptors through three different feature selection methods, namely genetic algorithm (GA), successive projections algorithm (SPA), and fuzzy rough set ant ...

Few variables were selected from a pool of calculated Dragon descriptors through three different feature selection methods, namely genetic algorithm (GA), successive projections algorithm (SPA), and fuzzy rough set ant ...